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Concerning the spread of news in a population of individuals who never forget

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In a deterministic model for the spread of news in a closed homogeneously mixing population of individuals who never forget (or, of an epidemic without recovery), it is shown that the fractions πi of the population first hearing the news (contracting the disease)i th hand are given by the terms of a truncated Poisson distribution.

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  1. Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England

    D. J. Daley

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Daley, D.J. Concerning the spread of news in a population of individuals who never forget. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 29, 373–376 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476908

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